All Features articles – Page 82
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'Minions': the three stooges
Charlie Chaplin, Peter Sellers and Mr Bean were the inspirations behind animation success story Minions. John Hazelton explores the rise of the be-goggled ones.
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'Shaun The Sheep Movie': silence of the lambs
For a film with no dialogue, Shaun The Sheep Movie still took two years to write. The runaway hit’s creative team at Aardman talk to Ian Sandwell about the rigours and rewards of remaining mute.
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'Inside Out': ode to joy
The team behind Pixar’s Inside Out found inspiration for their strikingly ambitious trip into the human mind in some unlikely places, as Pete Docter tells Jeremy Kay.
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'The Good Dinosaur': Jurassic bark
The Good Dinosaur director Peter Sohn talks to Elbert Wyche about bringing a friendly dinosaur and a dog-like boy to life and hatching the film’s environment from present-day reality
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'Anomalisa': existential risk
Animator Duke Johnson had to convince writer-director Charlie Kaufman that his spoken-word play Anomalisa would work as a feature film.
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Awards Season: Animation
Reports on the making of Inside Out, Shaun The Sheep Movie, The Good Dinosaur, Anomalisa, The Peanuts Movie and Minions
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Lisa Aschan talks 'White People'
The Swedish director of hit She Monkeys talks about her detention centre story, which plays in competition this week in Thessaloniki.
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Oscars 2016: inside the 81 Best Foreign-Language Film submissions
The 81 features submitted for foreign-language Oscar contention will be whittled down to a shortlist of nine in mid-December, before being narrowed further to the final five nominations. Screen delivers the lowdown on this year’s contenders.
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Q&A: David Leon, 'Orthodox'
Former Screen Star of Tomorrow David Leon on making his debut film in the orthodox Jewish community, bare-knuckle boxing, and working with Oliver Stone.
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“You don’t always need a ton of money”: the story behind micro-budget Sundance hit 'Tangerine'
Director Sean Baker and co-star Mya Taylor on the making of their innovative, worthy awards contender Tangerine.
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A Good year: Miriam Segal on 'Infiltrator', 2016 slate
With her first production Infiltrator in the bag, Good Films producer Miriam Segal has ambitious plans for her slate in 2016.
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Grandview: surveying the talent
With writers such as Bridge Of Spies’ Matt Charman on their books, former CAA agents Matt Rosen and Jeff Silver have LA-based management firm Grandview off to a flying start.
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Digital players, shifts in financing and fewer hot titles
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: The major digital players like Netflix and Amazon will be much discussed at this year’s American Film Market, as will shifts in the independent financing model and the decreasing number of hot titles.
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Digital Single Market: winds of change
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: The initial reaction to the European Commission’s digital single market proposals was dismayed panic among Europe’s film industry. While emotions have cooled, deep unease and distrust still linger. Geoffrey Macnab outlines the EC’s proposals, gathers industry reactions and assesses whether common ground can be found
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Buzz Titles: China & Hong Kong
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: High-rolling sequels, a Wong Kar Wai-produced rom-com and Johnnie To’s latest crime thriller: Liz Shackleton previews the top titles marching out of China and Hong Kong
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Rome: Claudio Cupellini talks 'Alaska'
The Italian director discusses trading gritty TV series Gomorrah for love story Alaska.
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Gallery: Australians In Film annual gala
Reese Witherspoon and Michael Bay were among the presenters at Sunday’s (October 25) annual AiF Awards and Benefit Gala at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Brazil Territory Focus: The Famous five
With Brazilian film-makers on the rise, Elaine Guerini rounds up a quintet of the country’s most exciting talent
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Online Revolution: Techtonic shifts
In 2013, Screen profiled a new generation of business-to-business websites seeking to capitalise on rapid technological changes in the industry. Colin Brown reports on how far things have come.
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Online Revolution: Indieloop
Colin Brown highlights 12 online services aspiring to assist with everything from financing and rights management to screenings and networking.